Re: [Boost-users] find japanese character with boost regex++

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-15 08:05:01

> Aside from the unified Han characters (kanji/hanzi), characters of
> the same category generally aren't neatly grouped together in Unicode.
> The 128-character blocks tend to correspond to locales, communities
> of use or specific legacy encodings and not to categories.  You need
> a look-up table (or more efficiently two levels of table) to check
> character categories.

I was talking about the Unicode block ranges (defined in blocks.txt from the
Unicode ftp site), and you are correct that a two stage table is required
for general categories.

John